I'm reading fantasy literature (Star Wars Expanded Universe stuff--mock away!), and I cried at a concert tonight when this African children's choir sang "Danny Boy". I don't usually cry at concerts. And I read fantasy lit when I need to escape.

I have my challenges, and you have yours, and they're both just as serious and important. I'm very sorry that you're lonely. I wish some of us were nearby.

I would never belong to a congregation, but I might sit in on a couple of services occasionally to see what you're up to. And that would give me a chance to hang out with you afterward. How awesome would that be?

The think about being a newcomer is to have other people to be a newcomer with.

If it is a small town, those are hard to get people to accept you sometimes. In the seventies I moved up state into this one town and could not even get people to speak to me. I didn't stay there too long. German towns are the worst around here for that, and I am not saying anything bad about the Germans. I am now a somewhat recluse so it does not bother me if anyone speaks to me here or not.

It's always irked me when people call Star Wars science fiction. Star Wars is about as science-fictiony as the Rig Veda or the Lord of the Rings. Which one are you reading? It's been a few years since I read any, though I did read the Mace Windu book not too long ago. Very good as far as SW:EU novels go, a lot of technical backstory, like the specifics of his fighting style. They've stopped doing that as much, especially since there's no more West End Games source material.

20. I wouldn't put it in the top Star Wars books list, but it wasn't the Black Fleet Crisis either.

Although the geek in my was slightly annoyed by the glaring inconsistancies dealing with cortosis... But that was started with the Knights of the Old Republic game, and the book is really a spinoff of that project.

I just got a craving after watching all the movies, so went hunting online. I found a chronological list of the books, then to the library for the first one listed. Then just workin' my way down the list. What would you recommend?

If you want more galaxy-spanning conflict, the big series like the Admiral Thrawn ones (both the original trilogy, or the two that are set ten years later. All five are by Timothy Zahn. And he wrote two spinoffs which I recommend reading in published order, not chronological order. Survivor's Quest and Outbound Flight. Neither are necessary, but they do give some extra background on things.) or the Jedi Academy trilogy (I'm not a big fan of Kevin J. Anderson's Star Wars stuff, just a matter of personal taste, but it still tends to float towards the top of the pile quality-wise.) are pretty decent.

If you want something a little more human dealing with the people who aren't princesses and the last of the jedi and all that crap, then I'd recommend the X-Wing series. The ones by Stackpole are a bit more serious, while the ones by Allston are are a bit funnier. Stackpole also wrote a continuing story of the main character from the first four X-Wing books, I, Jedi, and it overlaps both time and plot-wise with the Jedi Academy trilogy. In fact, to save some time you could probably skip over the Academy trilogy. Although the events do link a bit back to the earlier Republic time period, dealing with the temples on Yavin and whatnot. But most of the background with Exar Kun and the jedi of that era was covered in a comic series, not in novel form. Only comic book I ever owned for a long time was from that series.

I didn't particularly like Children of the Jedi, Darksaber and Planet of Twilight. The Crystal Star wasn't that great either. The Corellian Trilogy was interesting, but not the best IMO. For interesting outside of the main storylines stuff, The Courtship of Princess Leia was interesting(takes place right after the X-Wing book Solo Command, I believe), as was the original Han Solo trilogy (not the newer one. The newer one wasn't that great.).

26. Yeah, that one's not my personal favorate, but I'll still reread it from time to time.

Edited on Wed Jul-23-08 11:20 PM by DarkTirade

One of Kevin J. Anderson's better traits seems to be the ability to work a storyline that moves around enough to stay interesting, but without getting over-complicated at the same time. Whereas Zahn and Stackpole tend to just get really messy-complicated sometimes.

Which is probably why the few times they've collaborated it's been interesting as hell.

Honestly, over the years I have heard about almost every one of the Star Wars books he read. But that ended some time ago when he moved out and started working long hours. He is too busy now to be talking to me very much. He is also creative.

and he stopped reading the Star Wars books about in the middle of the New Jedi Order because he got busy (probably at work). He liked the Academy Trilogy story line, I remember when he told me about those. He may still have all those books, I don't know. We have enough books between the three of us to open a library, but most of them are now put away in boxes. Some of them were given to the area Goodwill simply because we decided it was better to let someone else enjoy them. I don't think his books were among them though.

Fortunately, the line of work my son is in has allowed him to find fellow artsy geeks (male and female) who he can share some of his interest with. As a group, they have made multible trips to see The Dark Knight, but he has beat all the others because he took me to see it one night, and his father (we are divorced) to see it another, so he has now seen it four or five times.

Relatively speaking there are I am certain at least a dozen folks on DU who would be grateful for the level of shittiness in my life compared to what they are dealing with daily. So I apologize if mine seems trivial but it is what is bugging me at the present time.

So I just need to leave the PC and go cut the grass before the day realizes I am out there and heats itself up.

I'm freaking exhausted as usual..Gave my self a painful shot of interferon this morning (I am learning that some places are painful and some are not..guessed wrong this morning). Spent yesterday battling nausea almost all day. No nausea today cause I haven't taken my chemo pill yet. I ran out of my script and they doctor re issued it but the grocery store won't get it in today which means instead of doing one pill in the morning and one in the evening I'll have to do one as soon as I get home and one at bed time. Oh joy!I WISH lonliness was my biggest problem...

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